Axl:Â “I assume what you want. I have seen a lot of different reactions on GnR music. And I don’t think that it is necessarily what people that come to the shows think, I think it’s more media bullshit and not rock n’ roll. I’m gonna ask a question especially to some specialists in the midwest. And you know that it’s one of my favourite places. […] Nice to come here when I was a kid but it’s not a pleasant place for me to be. But I realized that it has nothing to do with you who came to this show. […] Being a band that did put out “One In A Million” let me ask this question. How many redneck racist assholes do we have here tonight. Do you think that I am a racist? Or lovely just got confused whether I am or not. I live in LA, I live there for ten years, I lived on the streets, I don’t anymore but I used to do. We hang out with people like Ice-T and NWA and you can use whatever fucking language you want and I don’t need a bunch of jerk off white fucking people fucking telling you that I am a racist cause they don’t want our rock n’ roll to exist.[…] Ok, do you think GnR means do cocaine, party and basically drive yourself quit cause we don’t care about life anymore. Is that what GnR stands for for you? GnR is about surviving and getting through however you can and learn to deal with what you did do. I’d like to dedicate this song to the assholes in the world, this is something called “Double Talkin’ Jive” motherfucker.”

Axl:Â When we did the first show in Dayton, Ohio. We’d been told we’re the perfect house band for David Duke’s America. And it’s like, fuck David Duke, I don’t like being associated with that. I asked the crowd: “Is that what you get out of this, that we’re racists and you’re supporting it? ‘Cause if that’s the case, I’m gonna go home. That’s not why we’re here.” I asked the crowd about those things. I got some real interesting responses. The way they reacted was a little bit different than normal. There was silence in different places and cheering in others. You could tell that they were thinking for a minute.

Axl:Â When I read that Guns N’ Roses could be David Duke’s house band, that’s wrong, and it hurts me. I’m not for David Duke. I don’t know anything about the guy except that he was in the Klan, and that’s fucked.

Slash: (fÃ¸r “ISE”) “It’s called a clothing change alright?Â Just be patient.(chuckles) (fÃ¸r “So Fine”) Alright…Axl’s getitng taped up, he cut his fucking–He cut his fucking hand all the way to the bone, it’s fucked up, so he’s still back there. So let’s do a blues jam for a minute. I can get off on that. Let’s get the keyboards out and shit, we’ll do it in A. This shit happens, but ya know, what the fuck?”

Axl:Â “We had a run-in in Dayton [Ohio], because both myself and Dougie thought he (Slash) said something shitty to me onstage. That was the night I cut my hand to the bone. Backstage we have monitors much like the ones onstage, and while I was back there dealing with my hand, I thought I heard him take a potshot at me. I wrapped my hand up in a towel and was like, “Let’s get it taken care of, so I can finish the show.” I came back onstage and was a dick to him and told him I’d kick his fucking ass in front of 20,000 people. That was f?!ked up. I was wrong, and I apologized the second I realized I was mistaken. Someone who is supporting me as strongly as he does is a hand I never want to bite.”

Axl:Â The band works the stage and gets off on the crowd, but I’m kind of a shield. If I’m gone they don’t really know how to get on top of it. If I’m out there and not handling it, no one can really rescue me. It’s just very hard sometimes. We’ve done shows where I could feel that it was a very taking thing and I turn around and Slash is doing handstands because he’s still getting off on the chaos of it. And I’m having the shit beat out of me. This happened in Vegas. My jaw was hurting, my back was hurting, my leg was hurting. I call it shadow boxing because it comes down to between me and the audience.

Slash:Â Perla and I had been introduced in Las Vegas when we were headlining the Thomas & Mack Center during the first leg of the Illusion tour.

“Perla is another groupie success story. In 1992 she went to a Las Vegas Guns Nâ€™ Roses show looking for a way to meet Slash. She liked his picture on the cover of Rolling Stone. Perla made it backstage and partied with the top-hatted guitarist. They partied through the Gunnersâ€™ breakup. They partied through Slashâ€™s divorce (yes, he was married). And they partied until they tied the knot. Mrs. Hudson not only got a heavy-metal family (they have two kids), she also got a career. Her Facebook page lists her as â€œWife of Rock Legend Slash,â€ and her Twitter account boasts nearly 4,000 followers. Recent tweet: â€œSlash resting in Norway.â€ Once a groupie, always a groupie.”Â [Kilde]

Axl:Â “I wanna talk about standing up for what you are believing. It’s hard nowadays to stand up for what you are believing especially when somebody tells you that it is wrong. […] And that’s exactly where they won’t you to be. […] We should have called the record “Our Hitler”. I think Guns N’ Roses has a hell lot to do with Naziism. […] They still don’t know what to make out of “One In A Million”. The most people that get pissed off by what they call is racism were the white people. And there are a lot of white people that just don’t like rock n’ roll in general, soÂ now we’ve got a fucking target, they are racist. Is that what you think people of us. If it is so, then you should probably go home. We’ve been told that we are David Duke’s houseband for America. Oh, fuck David Duke.”

Axl:Â “They don’t know we’ve spent ten years in Hollywood watching those guys [MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e] ripping everyone else off. And they get curious why we get in the ring with Vince is because I’ll shot Vince in the fucking head. But Vince is not as stupid as he looks, he is smart enough to pop up every now and then and say something in the press so that MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e can make some money. That’s pretty smart. But he isn’t smart enough to do it by himslef, Nikki Sixx tells him how to do these things.”

Axl:Â “Maybe you have been let down by friends, by the family or by life in general. You know the mood when I talk about when something you like comes on TV but you don’t care because you have been let down. And when the band Nirvana or […] why this song is such a success people relate to been let down.Â Why are you always late?Â Maybe because I am in a bad mood because of something. And this is my life and this is my love and sometimes it doesn’t mean anything to me, cause I am just too fucking bombed out. You know how that feels, right? Sometimes people try to make help sure that you are so fucking bombed out that you can’t do something like having a rock show. It’s a lot of people in the media, they deal with rock n’ roll and they deal with rap and whatever, anything goes wrongÂ it’s rock n’ roll or it’s rap, that’s what is fucking up things, it’s bad for people.Â And they print their one-sided stories and their one-sided point of views. So people like you and people like us can’t have a good time, they wanna get rid of this shit. You know why they wanna get rid of it? Cause they are fucking scared to death of it. […] Well, we dedicate this song to assholes like that, this is something called Double Talkin’ Jive motherfucker.”

Slash:Â “February 1, 1992 was our last show with Soundgarden, at Compton Terrace, Arizona, and we decided to commemorate it with a little prank. We got ourselves a few inflatable sex dolls and Matt and Duff and I took our clothes off and went onstage with them. Come to think of it, I was the only one of us completely naked. In any case, Soundgarden was touring the Badmotorfinger album, and they came from a place where there was no fun to be had while rocking, so they were mortified. They looked around and there we were screwing blowup dolls all around them; I was drunk and I fell. I got separated from my doll, and at that point I was totally naked – it was a scene”

Chris Cornell:Â “I met Slash in 1992 when G&R took Soundgarden on tour. He was extremely gracious and always very supportive. Often when you tour with a band that are that successful, they treat you like sh*t. Slash was always a very consistent and amiable person and he is now. And I will say this – and I don’t mean this as a slight to him, it’s actually a compliment – Slash is the most drunk guitarist I have ever seen play well on stage. I was never able to be that trashed and that good at the same time. That’s a part of his consistency: he doesn’t drink now and he’s still great. That dedication to music is what drives his character.”

SlashÂ har et interview medÂ Guitar World, hvor han bla. taler om Izzy:Â “I mean, the guy didn’t want to tour or do videos; he hardly wanted to record. I just never thought he was one of those guys that this would happen with.” LÃ¦s artiklenÂ her.

Matt:Â “The solo I did on “Use Your Illusion” live from Japan was a solo i started doing the very first show i did with GnR. Not always the same but i would just play the way i felt at the time. Axl asked me to do a solo at Rock In Rio in front of 145.000 right before the gig. When he in introduced me , I came up with something on the spot. I hadn’t done a solo for along time. I never soloed with The Cult. so it was crazy… The band loved it so i did it everynight after that.”

Axl:Â “Do you believe all the shit you read? Do you ever wonder why you’re given so much shit to read? You’re given a lot of shit to read, because, there’s a lot of fucking people out there who… I don’t think I should even give them the credit to say that they’re very conscious of that which they’re doing. But it’s mainly because they don’t want things like this concert here in Oklahoma to fucking happen. Yeah, there’s a lot of people who don’t know why they do things. But some of the reasons behind that. They don’t the people like you, that are here tonight, to see some little loud mouth fucker like me. Who crawled out some shithole somewhere, and worked his way up onto this stage. They don’t want… There’s something out there that doesn’t want people like you to realize that you can do whatever the fuck you want with your God damn life. And there are those that unless they get a piece of the pie, unless they get a piece of your ass, unless they get a piece of your life, they just don’t want it to happen. You do it their way or you don’t do it. They can suck my dick. I believe that deep inside everybody, there’s something inside you that knows what the fuck you’re supposed to do with your life. And no matter what anybody tells you, if you keep looking and you keep digging, you’re gonna find it. And you can be the person you fucking were meant to be on this God damn planet. And don’t let anybody, anybody, ever get in your way. Including me. And I know it’s not like the most humane thing, but you can, when it gets real rough, you can think of a little theme song that somebody else wrote. Namely Mr. Paul McCartney. And when they’re trying to keep you down, just hold on and know someday you’ll bust out, you’ll get onto your own shit and they won’t be able to fucking keep up with your ass. And you can be thinking just Live And Let Die motherfucker.”

Slash:Â “We just played Oklahoma. The option was Oklahoma or Texas. I was like: “Why would we go back to Texas?” We’ve never been to Oklahoma. Which turned out to be a really good gig.”

Axl:Â “Any of you… read the latest Rolling Stone? I was on the phone a long time last night and a friend of mine was telling me how… (directed towards a member of the crowd) Shut the fuck up! Oh, Axl, cool, metal dude, rock n’ roll, party, cocaine, yeah… I ain’t here for that! Anyway, a friend was telling me that my family has taken offense to what I said in the magazine. “It’s a shame. His mother can’t even go out of the house now.” It was amazing my mother could go out of the house before knowing the shit she fuckin knew! And, why is he talking about this? Cause it might not have happened to you, but it may have happened to the 2 or 3 people standing going to come back and haunt them when they hit about the age of 25! And, then you gotta find your way, and climb your way out of what you “thought” was your life! But, it looks more like a fuckin car wreck in your head that no one told you about because the ‘family” doesn’t want to have to be embarrassed about these things coming out. We just shouldn’t have to deal with this publicly, then were probably not going to deal with the bullshit at all! And I bet that they like it that way! I’m not a qualified therapist. I don’t know a lot of shit about this, but I do know that this is the 90’s! And I know that if were going to make it another 50 years on this planet we gotta fuckin’ change our shit! And, there’s a lot of motherfuckers that don’t want that shit to be changed! Cause that’s going to dig up their crap! The parents who done fucked up their kids through their whole fuckin lives, and they are about 40 or 50, and think it’s cool! FUCK THAT SHIT! And, I’m the last motherfucking person who they thought would be climbing up their ass to tell them about it! But see for me… it ain’t about doing fucking cocaine. It ain’t about how much vodka I drink, or how much I can drink someone under the table! It ain’t about what a “macho man-rock-n-roller” I can be! That shit don’t work no more! That’s great for little kids, fuckin bullshit! But, it don’t work no more in the real world, not for my ass! I can’t come up here and go “Yeah, I’m bad. I’m rock-n-roll, we’re doing this rock n’ roll thing.” If my life is falling apart… I can’t fake it no more! Just because my family or my record company tells me I should so everybody can be happy or make money… yeah, suck my dick! Anyway, there are those in my family that they plan that they are going to get revenge, because it was a terrible thing I did! yeah, try it! And, if a fucking, scrawny little jr. high. 90 pound weakling can get up here and get this shit on. So can you, who have the same fucking problems in life! They don’t have to get away with it! I tried being nice. I tried being cool about it. I tried being friends offering love and forgiveness and all that shit! And, they say you know how much we love you. But let’s keep you down like we always have.” Yeah, well, guess what? I’ve ‘changed” my point of view! For me now, it’s kinda like live and let die motherfucker!!

Axl: You know it never ceases to amaze me… when you are up here and you look out over the crowd, and you can always find usually 18-25 year old’s… real pot smoking, judgemental, roc n’ rollin, fuckheads! You say I don’t know I’m cool and shit. And I don’t know who those GnR think they are cool and shit, but I’m cool. Well, it ain’t about me being cool! It ain’t about you being cool! But, what we’re doing here tonight is pretty fucking cool. So, if you come out here to be a critical, judgemental, “fuck” ya know, I guess that’s your fucking problem. If you want to stand there like James Dean with a fuckin corn cob up your ass, that’s cool. Seems to me you are wasting your own goddamned time though. And that’s another fucking problem: we all think we have so much fucking time, you know? We ain’t got no goddamned time to waste at all! You want to sit on your ass and think your cool? You will end up working in a factory ‘till you’re fuckin 80 years old, then they will rip you off for your fucking pension! Meanwhile, I’ll get off my fuckin soapbox. I was singing that song [Civil War], and people were going “Yeah, OK.” But, maybe you are just stoned. But this is a Wake-up call Chicago! Do you know where the fuck you are? Wake up, it, s time to die!

Guns N’ Roses canceled a concert Friday night in Chicago after lead singer W. Axl Rose fled town to avoid arrest on charges stemming from a riot at the band’s show last year in St. Louis, his record company said.

”He wasn’t anxious to spend any time in jail without reason,” said Bryn Bridenthal, spokeswoman for Geffen Records. “To suddenly extradite him over a misdemeanor charge, there’s no cause.”

Geffen also said the band canceled shows scheduled for Monday and Tuesday in Auburn Hills, Mich.

Rose was charged with assault and property damage over a riot that followed an aborted Guns N’ Roses concert July 2, in which about 40 concertgoers and 25 police officers were hurt.

Slash:Â “Having everybody show up at the concert for that cause was great. And all the bands that were there. There was none of that sort of rock star… you know, “who is who of rock”-vibe, going on. So we all had a basically good time. And it was really well organized.”

Gilby:Â “That was probably, singly, probably the best experience that I ever had being in the band. Because, number one, I mean, it’s like a tragic thing happened that we were there, you know, but it was a positive cause? And I thought it was very, very heart-moving. You know, I couldn’t believe the response of a stadium filled with people. It almost didn’t matter what band was up there, as long as you were playing a Queen song or, you know, you were there for Freddie Mercury. It was just incredible.”

Dizzy: “It was a pretty special event. It felt like… you could feel the energy and vibe… and just all the people were really… like you could really feel it from the crowd – very caring and… just we need to do something about this horrible disease. And just the fact that all those people were able to come together and play the show was kind of microcosm of what was going on in the world at the time. It was pretty incredible. We could only play two songs, so we played two songs and flew out.”

Axl:Â “When we did “Bohemian Rhapsody,” that was unrehearsed. Brian asked me to do it that day, and it felt right. I spoke to Elton before the show, and he was kind of uneasy about meeting me – you know, I’m supposed to be the most homophobic guy on Earth. When we talked, I was excited, but serious, telling him how much his music meant to me. By the end he was like ‘Whoa.’ Onstage I was trying to be as respectful to him as I could. I was purposely vibing out, and if you look close, you can see it at times, how much love and respect I have for Elton. There was some heavy eye contact going down. It was amazing. MTV’s John Norris kept saying, ‘This could be the last time you’ll ever see Elton John and Axl Rose together onstage.’ Not if I have anything to do with it.”

Duff: “Talking about the tour and being wasted:Â I don’t even remember playing Czechoslovakia; we played a stadium show in one of the most beautiful cities in East Europe not long after the fall of the Berlin wall, and the only way I knew I’d even been in the country was because of the stamp I found in my passportÂ [Duff’s biografi, “It’ So Easy”, 2011, s. 201]

26 – Bandet spiller et show vedÂ Adolph Hitler’sÂ Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany, der blev oprettet i 1936. FÃ¸r “DTJ” sigerÂ Axl: “No, no, no. We’ll dedicate this next song kinda like “Live And Let Die” to those people that who will do anything to force you to believe and make you believe that the only way to find your happiness is by controlling another one’s destiny, by forcing them into submission. Those people are nothing but “Double Talkin’ Jive” motherfuckers.”En iblandt de 40,000 tilskuere kaster en flaske pÃ¥ scenen, og en speaker beder efterfÃ¸lgende publikum og at kÃ¸le af:Â “There is one or another who thinks he has to throw a bottle on stage because it is a part of the show. It is not a part of the show. We all have a great band here, the biggest band there is right now. Please take care, we don’t wanna get anyone hurt. We all wanna be a part of a huge show tonight and not throwing things on stage is only a part of that show. You all paid a lot of money for it and we all wanna see a great show and the best band: Guns N’ Roses.” Midt under showet, er der en kvinde som skal fÃ¸de, og sikkerhedsfolkene og lÃ¦gerne ved stedet, prÃ¸ver at finde hende.SÃ¦tliste:Â Nightrain, Mr. Brownstone, Live And Let Die, Attitude, Bad Obsession, Double Talkin’ Jive, Civil War, Wild Horses [Intro] / Patience, Welcome To The Jungle, It’s Alright [Intro] / November Rain, You Could Be Mine, Drum Solo, Guitar Solo, Godfather Theme, Sail Away Sweet Sister / Bad Time [Intro] / Sweet Child O’ Mine, Only Women Bleed [Intro] / Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, Don’t Cry, Mother [Intro] / Paradise City

Slash:Â “We did this one showÂ in Paris whereÂ AxlÂ got the idea in his head that we should have people come out to play with us to record it for aÂ pay-per-viewÂ show on some global TV network.Â AxlÂ got Aerosmith,Â Lenny Kravitz, Jeff Beck, and pulled this move that seemed almost gratuitous to me because they were my favourite artists – as you know by now, Aerosmith was my favourite band, Beck my favourite guitarist, and I’d been on Lenny’s album”Â [Slash’s biografi, “Slash”, 2007, s. 351]

Slash:Â I finally got to jam with Jeff Beck and we blew his ears out – literally! He was going to do that show with us in Paris, but for some reason his rig wasn’t working, so he plugged into my system, Later that night he woke up with this insane screaming in his ears; he had to go to a hospital and everything. He called me up, and I was thinking, “Wow, Jeff Beck is calling me on the phone.” But he was calling to say he was pissed, and that he might not be able to play live anymore because my amp gave him tinnitus [an ailment that creates a ringing or buzzing sound in the ear]. He was freaked. I guess doctors are working to make him a custom hearing aid that cancels out the frequencies that are bothering him. I mean, that’s mind-blowing. If someone was to tell me that tomorrow, I’d be destroyed. Man, I hope he’s okay.

Slash:Â I don’t think it was really my fault, but my rig was the straw that broke the camel’s back. His tinnitus was probably brought on by years of abuse. But I still feel bad, because Jeff is truly one of the greats. I was in a jam session with him, Joe Perry, Lenny Kravitz and Gilby, and Jeff was playing all this amazing shit while simultaneously talking to me. I wanted to pack it up that day, send the amps home and find a nice, little job selling life insurance or something. I was thinking, “Hmmm, real estate – there could be a future in that.”

Slash:Â I was on tour during Use Your Illusion, and happened to be in Paris, with my mom along, when Seymour was there, too. The three of us had lunch and he explained that the nickname embodied my sense of hustle, in every sense of the word. He was proud of the fact that I’d actually made a name for myself and that he’d been the one to give me that moniker.

Axl:Â “I’d like to dedicate this next song to those who try to control and manipulate you. Be those, the powers that be. The governement, your family, your friends, or anything else that chooses to fuck with you. You can’t even talk to some of these people. You can try to be friends. You can try to work it out. But… you can’t save nobody else. You’ll be lucky if you can save your own ass. But we’ll dedicate this to these people. This is called…Live And Let Die.”

Slash:Â (fÃ¸r “Always On The Run” er der en lille pause og folk begynder at blive uroligeog rÃ¥ber “Guns N’ Roses”) “Just fucking hold on. We are trying to get something together here, it’s cool. Don’t worry about it. Just relax. … This is a little tune that Lenny Kravitz and I did together, it’s called “Always On The Run”.

Axl:Â “I’d like to dedicate this next song to a man who likes to play games… to a man that lives his life playing games… premeditated games… a man who’s so empty that thats all he can do is play fucking games… a man who’s a parasite… a man who makes who lives his life on sucking off other peoples life force and their energy… an old man who likes to live precariously through young people and suck up all their life cause he has none of his own… I’d like to dedicate this song to a cheap punk named Warren Beatty… a man who has a family and a baby but he’s got to spent his time fucking around with other people because he doesn’t know what to do with his own life… a man who uses you, uses the media and uses everybody to… to fulfill his fucking parasitic needs… Well listen home fuck!… if you think Madonna kicked your ass I’m betting my money on Annette you stupid fucking asshole this is a song called “Double Talkin Jive” motherfucker!”

Axl:Â Let’s talk about trying to save someone. Like perhaps a friend, a relative or a lover. Someone that you love. Let’s get something straight. You can’t fucking save anyone. You be really fucking lucky if you can save yourself. That doesn’t mean that you should turn your back on anyone, that does not mean that you can’t help anyone. But on this planet that we call earth there is something that is basic law and that is called free will. And you can’t fuck with anybody’s free will, you can lock ‘em up, you can put them in prison, you can kick their teeth in and you can fucking take away their life but you can’t really fuck with anybody’s free will. Now there is somebody you love. Somebody you care about (a fan makes something in the audience) who’s that? Suck my fucking dick. You wasted your money asshole. Back to my story, you can’t do anything about someone else’s life no matter what they mean to you. If it comes down to it and you gotta save your own ass then you gotta “Live And Let Die”.

Axl:Â Anybody seen the video for “November Rain” yet? I will dedicate this to an idiot who played my wife, this is something called “You Could Be Mine”.

Axl:Â Last time we have been here we said something about a cheap rip-off magazine called Kerang! Just for your information, we tried to work out the truth, to work everything out and be cool and to give the readers all the information wanted, all you wanna read about, but Neil Jeffries wanted to know why I said shit about their magazine in front of 72,000 people. I don’t know why you printed lies about us for fucking three years at a rate of prescription readers of 75,000 people. Sounds fair to me fuckhead. But of course they didn’t print any shit about us, so we’ll dedicate this to Kerrang, nothing but a bunch of “Double Talkin’ Jive” motherfuckers.

Axl:Â Let the girl get out, help the girl out. She’s hurt you fucking assholes, that’s how you killed each other in Donington. Thank you. Fuck! You are in the ring and we are all winning tonight. Do me a favour. Don’t hurt each other. If you see someone getting hurt, help them over the wall, right? Now – when we played Donington, I was standing in the front I looked to this side and I saw all this fucking drunk guys and I looked to this side and I realized these people weren’t as drunk as them, way to go. And then the shit got real bad during David Lee Roth’s set but he wouldn’t let anybody stop the show. So for the past few years we have taken all the flag. Get that fucking asshole outta here John. I assure you you just lost your cash you stupid fuckhead. See ya!

Slash: When we played Wembley Stadium in 1992, the Hudson clan came out in force: backstage before the show I witnessed one of my uncles, my cousin and my grandfather, on his very first trip to London from Stroke, down every drop of liquor in our dressing room. Consumed in full, our booze rider in those days would have killed anyone but us.

“Having just given what I consider to be the best performance I am capable of at this point in my career, I totally understand why someone in the UK would want to needlessly harass me in this way. I don’t expect to be treated any differently from anyone else traveling in and out of Britain and I understand these people have a job to do. However, to be singled out by someone who just wants to score a few points and have a story to tell his friends over a beer is really out of order.”

Â “GNR and their management are like a small government. Axl’s the president, and his manager’s a personal advisor. A couple of the other more visible band members are vice-presidents. Then there’s the little guys who come underneath, to make sure only the right information is leaked out. They’re dependent on the band for their living, so they will police themselves. Support bands are like other countries with whom they maintain a diplomatic front. Like, keep your mouth shut, enjoy the ride and everything will be cool. Open your mouth, and jeopardize your own position. It’s an interesting thing to experience first hand.”

Duff:Â “One June 21, 1992, Guns N’ Roses had to pay to keep the public-transport system open late in Basel, Switzerland.Â The only way back into town from the soccer stadium was a tram line that normally closed long before we finished – maybe before we even started”Â [Duff’s biografi, “It’s So Easy”, 2011, s. 204]

Duff:Â “On Tuesday, June 23, in Rotterdam, I stewed backstage after the Dutch police told us power would be cut at 11:30 p.m. – fans had already waited two hours since opener Faith No More finished playing, and our set would not be finished by 11.30 p.m. I feared another riot. Onstage,Â AxlÂ told the crowd about the police threat, and basically invited the audience to tear the place down if the show was stopped. The power stayed on”Â [Duff’s biografi, “It’s So Easy”, 2011, s. 205]

Axl:Â “We were looking forward to this last date in Europe, as we love the Spanish audiences and were planning on a wild night to end the tour. We hope that we will be able to return soon and make it up to our fans.”

Axl:Â “I’ve been adviced not to say anything, or anything derogatory about St. Louis. Well, St. Louis can suck my dick! You saw the news, I was arrested by some unexpected guest – it wasn’t unexpected! I knew that the fucker lied and was gonna have me arrested. And the only way we would be here tonight to do this tour was to let that fucker have his fuckin’ way – and shove it back down his motherfuckin’ throat! Now, now the son of bitch, after they dropped the deal, and we got to court, and I plead not guilty – he doesn’t want to go to court now with Mr. Rose, he wants to work it out with his lawyers. Too late homefuck! Because, I’m not fighting just for my own shit. I’m fighting for what I believe in and what I feel is the truth. And I’m fighting for 60 fuckin’ people whose lives were threatened in that fuckin’ riot, because that place doesn’t know how to have rock concert. I mean, what, we’ve played some place, the last show they had was Jimmy fuckin’ Buffet , give me a break. So now, it will come down in October to one or two things – either his career, or my career – and fuck him! (Axl talks to someone in the crowd) Oh, you’re cute. You want another St. Louis on your hands, fuckface? Stop throwing shit! So… With this, and certain attitude is required, I think it’s called Live… And Let Die!”

Slash: “We had a meeting before it began because the Metallica camp was concerned: we were having major problems getting onstage on time, riding that high-low roller coaster.”

Axl:Â “So, what do you do this week? Get off working? Thinking about fucking the guy or the girl down the street at work? Watching TV? You really think you got time for that? Suck my dick, fuckhead! You bought a ticket and I feel just like jerking off. But I wouldn’t do that to you guys.”

Slash:Â “At the Giants Stadium at the end of July, Axl barely made it through the set due to the state of his voice. He was advised by his doctor to rest it for a week, so we cancelled our next three dates. The tour resumed in Canada.”Â [Slash’s biografi]

Gilby:Â “That thing happened so fast. I mean, you’re probably gonna get the same story from absolutely everyone. We had gotten word — you know, we were all just hanging out at the hotel — and somebody said that there was a big accident. James had burned his arm, and their set got cut short. The audience is, you know, going a little crazy. It would be really great if we could go on early today. (Laughs) So we all got ready, and we got there, and we did. But the problem is, is because of all the frantic stuff that happened — from, you know, Metallica’s crew, our crew, all the things of, you know, everybody trying to do the right thing — by the time we got onstage — which was early — it wasn’t together. You know, the sound was just like — it wasn’t just bad, it was like almost unplayable. And I just remember Axl coming up to me and just going: You know, I can’t hear myself — I can’t hear anything. What do we do? (Laughs) You know, and the next thing you know, he left. And that was the end of it”Â [Spin, Juni 1999]

Slash:Â “The tour resumed in Canada, which came to be the infamous coup de grÃ¢ce of everything that was wrong with our band. It all went down in Montreal, on August 8, 1992. Metallica went on, and midway through their set, James Hetfield caught on fire when a pyrotechnic malfunctioned. He sustained serious injuries to his arm and shoulder, and the band was forced to end their set immediately. We were still at our hotel when it happened, and we were asked to go on early – it was a noissue; of course we agreed to do so. The band headed to the venue right away and discussed what we’d play to fill up the remainder of Metallica’s slot and ours as well. We had plenty of time to go over our options but it couldn’t happen because Axl did not show up. Not only did we not go on early enough to fill the void left by Metallica, we went on three hours later than our own scheduled stage time. In the end, there was something like four hours between the time Metallica were forced to stop the show and the moment we took the stage. And once we did, Axl ended it early, after we’d done just ninety minutes out of a scheduled two hours. I am sure he had his reasons, but neither I nor the crowd, as far as I know, knew quite what they were. I can’t say I was surprised when the audience started rioting”Â [Slash’s biografi, “Slash”, 2007, s. 358]

Duff:Â “Less than a month into the tour [with Metallica], on August 8, 1992, we stopped in Montreal. Metallica front man James Hetfield inadvertently stepped into the plume of one of his band’s pyrotechnics pots at the show and had to be rushed to the hospital with extensive burns. The other members of Metallica came back onstage after James had been whisked away, explained what had happened, and apologized for suspending the show. We could have saved the day by going right on and playing a long set. It would have been a great gesture to the fans and to the guys in Metallica. It would have been the professional thing to do, the right thing to do. And we were capable of an epic set […]. But no. The same shit happened in Montreal as elsewhere, us going on late – more than two hours after Hetfield was rushed to the hospital – playing to pissed-off fans. Our own fans, pissed off at us. I sat backstage monitoring the sounds drifting in from the arena, drink in hand, and could feel the crowd’s mood change. The rumble of tens of thousands of people beginning to get angry is a deep, low sound that penetrates walls and vibrates the fundaments of buildings, where dressing rooms are located. It’s a horrible sound, and the panic and embarrassment and frustration in my own head was compounded by that rumble. After letting the crowd reach its boiling point, we finally went out and started playing. Then, forty-five minutes into our set, a microphone stand hit Axl in the mouth. He threw down the mic and left. This time the riot didn’t start near the stage. We didn’t even see it. The crowd blew up back at the concession areas and merchandise stands, and then spread outside into the streets. In fact, our crew did their normal teardown of the set, oblivious to the riot already raging out of view. Only when our buses pulled out of the parking enclosure did we see the full extent of the situation – cop cars turned over, vehicles on fire, lots of broken windows. Once again there looked to be lots of injuries. Once again I felt anguished and heartbroken. This time I also felt deeply embarrassed, a feeling that managed inexorably to worm its way into my vodka-numbed psyche. It didn’t have to be like this”Â [Duff’s biografi, “It’s So Easy”, 2011, s. 206-207]

Lars Ulrich (Metallica): “You know, Axl Rose is one of the most real people I’ve ever met. Okay, probably like one of the truest and more real people that I’ve ever met. When Axl is in the right mood and the right frame of mind, I mean, there’s nobody that touches him as an artist and as a performer. But he’s also the kind of person that it’s sort of like if the monitors aren’t 110%, then he can’t deal with it. And then he just, instead of trying to find a way to deal with it, he chooses to walk off. And I’m sort of in a situation where I can sort of relate to both sides, because I think that there’s a kind of purity in what he does. It just so happens that that night, when James blew up onstage, and Guns N’ Roses needed to come out and save the day, you know, Axl had one of his nights where he just wasn’t really feeling it, and couldn’t really pull it off. And that was the night where it really needed to happen — do you know what I mean?”

Axl:Â “I realized I was gonna hurt myself, I told Slash: ‘Two more songs, if we can’t get it fixed, I gotta go.’ And we did more then two more songs, and finally I was like: ‘I don’t know what to do’ and I looked over and Gilby was like: ‘Dude, I can’t hear’ and Duff was like: ‘I can’t hear either.’ So we had a little huddle and it was like: “We’re outta here!'”

Slash:Â “Every time we have one of these happy-go-lucky riots, we are the ones punished. It’s really disappointing, because it’s like, “Well, we just killed that town. We’ll probably never get to play there again.” You never set out to cause something like that. But people think we set out to provoke it. The power to cause something like that is impossible for me to even comprehend.”

Axl:Â “I addressed the crowd in Phoenix and explained, “Maybe I was just too fuckin’ bummed out to get my ass up here any quicker.” They loved that. Maybe I couldn’t move any faster than I was because it was a bitch. I don’t mean to inconvenience the crowd by beeing late.”Â [I, Axl – Part I. Del James for RIP Magazine 1992]

Slash:Â “We postponed the remaining dates for nearly a month until James recovered enough to continue [after the pyrotechnics incident in Montreal]. Apparently that was enough time for Axl’s vocal cords to recover as well.”Â [Slash biografi]

Fra en fans noter:Â “It was the summer tour with Metallica and Faith No More in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Took them almost an hour to get on stage after Metallica’s set, which didn’t make anyone in the crowd very happy. At some point in the show, Axl asked the crowd how many people there were from Las Cruces. After some cheers, raised hands, etc., he then asked how many people would actully admit to being from Las Cruces. Needless to say, that question was answered with many bottles thrown at the stage, raised middle fingers, and lots of people yelling “F*ck You Axl!!!”…”

Axl:Â Here we are, twentyÂ minutes into the show. O.K.? How much did you pay for this show? I’ll tell you what I’ll do I’ll pay you back because this just isn’t going to work. It’s hard to be up here giving like this with all you people sitting there taking a fucking nap. Yeah,yeah, I know, there he goes begging for attention again. My therapist always says, ‘You crave attention.’ And I go, ‘No shit'”

Axl:Â “[Kurt Cobain] is a fucking junkie with a junkie wife. If the baby’s born deformed, I think they both ought to go to prison; that’s my feeling. He’s too good and too cool to bring his rock ‘n’ roll to you, because the majority of you he doesn’t like, or want to play to, or even have you like his musicâ€¦ I don’t know. You can tell me that you really like to be alienated but I think, underneath it all, you’re probably nothing but a double-talking jive motherfucker.”

Craig Duswalt: “I loved to fly and traveling with Guns Nâ€™ Roses took flying to a whole new level. I had never had a fear of flying until I experienced hell on a GNR flight from Kansas City to Denver. We flew in a massive thunderstorm, and the plane was tossed around like a cheese omelet. We all thought for sure we were going to die that night. I actually wrote a note to Natasha, telling her how much I loved her, and that this was good-bye, and I held it tightly in my clenched fist until we landed safely. Axl sat very quietly next to his sister Amy the entire flight. It was eerily quiet the whole time. When we landed we heard that our pilots were even freaking out. To this day I hate flying, all because of that flight.”[“Welcome To My Jungle”]

Slash:Â “The hours go by and we were really loaded. […] I collapsed like a rag doll in the hallway … I blacked out, and my heart stopped for eight minutes, or so I was told. […] I was pissed off at myself for having died. [Hours later at my hotel room] Doug Goldstein came in and launched into one of the most pathetic displays of bullshit concern that mankind has ever known.”

Slash:Â “The one where I died in San Francisco? I remember exactly what happened. These drug dealers came to my hotel room at 5am. They had everything and I took all of it. I started down the hallway and I ran into a maid, and I asked where the elevator was and then bam! I collapsed. Little Spanish lady, it freaked her out. When you overdose, there’s a certain kind of scene where everybody is just moving really quickly and there’s noise from radios and everything; I’ve experienced it a bunch of times. They took me to the hospital but I said, ‘I’m fine’, signed myself out, went back to the hotel and we flew to the next gig.”

Bill Wilson (Stadium manager):Â “There is a potential that many police officers who were scheduled to work the concert may refuse to work, I would like you to explore the following two options to help our situation here: 1) Replace the band . . . 2) Have the band not play the song ‘Cop Killer.’ ”

Axl Rose :Â “Both Ice and myself are tired of all the racial crap. This was our chance to play together and show people that we’re about artistic expression, not violence or prejudice. It comes down to this–freedom of speech is OK, as long as it doesn’t piss off some public official.”Â [Kilde]

Duff:Â “Yo motherfuckers. I wanna dedicate this song to my close bros in Body Count, because they have gone through a lot of shit the previous show. It’s a song by The Misfits and it’s called “Attitude”.”

Axl:Â “This is a celebration day. As it is today, Mr. Slash is finally an american citizen. It’s amazing isn’t it, now they let anybody in. Wait, you are San Diego, you already know that.”

Dizzy Reed:Â “The way this band works is that we are going to accomplish whatever it is that we set out to do. It may not happen on schedule, but it will eventually happen. The tour with Metallica was a lot of fun, but it was very stressful. Everyone in both bands was a little more pumped up than if it was just another show. ‘F?!k, we have to go on after them.’ It was more challenging than anything I’ve ever done. When I get stressed out, I try to find some sports on TV and just relax. When I’m on the road, I think about home a lot, but I enjoy the road. I’m gonna show up and be ready to play no matter what’s going down. That’s all you can do. At times you could feel the pressure in the air, but once we were onstage, then it was a blast. Nothing compares to the big stage. Matt and I have been doing this for a while now – but we’re not like original members of the band – and Gilby’s been here for a year or so. By the end of the tour the shows were really starting to come together. We became a lot stronger as a band. Playing the sold-out Rose Bowl for something like 70,000 people in our hometown was probably the most memorable gig. That was the shit. I took the final bow with my son, Justin, and for me that was really cool I don’t know what he made of it, but I think he dug it. He’ll probably be doing it someday, and he’ll have to roll me out in a wheelchair.”Â [Kilde]

Om Axl, der taler om Izzy:Â “I’ve heard he’s still slinging mud. I can’t take it personally, because if it wasn’t me, it would just be somebody else. Somebody’s gonna get it in every city. There’s nothing I can do about it. When I left the band, he got real pissed off, told me to get off his property. When I talked to him a couple weeks later, he said he wasn’t still mad, but who knows? I’ve left him all my phone numbers since December, and he still hasn’t called. When he’s ready, he’ll call and we’ll talk.”

Duff McKagan:Â “When things weren’t going that good, I think we adjusted pretty well. For the most part things ran pretty smoothly – as smoothly as Guns N’ Roses can run. At one point we had like five gigs left, and we were all pretty spent. If we’d slouched after everything we’d been through to get there, we would’ve lost. Once we got onstage, everything was alright. We’re brothers on that stage, but, yeah, we needed some time to recharge our batteries. We’ve been touring for a f?!cking long time supporting the Illusion records, like a year and a half or something. Since the Metallica tour ended and we’ve been home, like four weeks now, I’ve been running around like a madman, mixing my record and getting my life in order. We’re getting ready to go back out, and I’m looking forward to it again. After this tour is finished and we take another rest, I can’t wait to go back into the studio with GN’R and see what we come up with next. We’ve got some really, really intense shit that we’ve come up with at soundchecks, and I wanna see what that stuff sounds like. Gilby and I have been writing, and Matt and I have come up with some intense stuff that I can’t wait to jam during pre-production or whatever. This whole experience has brought us even closer as friends.”Â [Kilde]

Matt:Â “We’re on this dirt road going through the jungle [to somewhere to buy cocaine]… I hear monkeys and jungle sounds. We drive for 20 minutes on this crazy dirt road, and I’m like, `Amigo, where are we going?’ Finally, we pull up in front of a shack made out of tin and sheets of plywood, and he blinks his lights 10 times. I gave him the money… a guy came out and threw 10 grams in straws. Then the guy handed me two bottles of pure Venezuelan rum. Two days later the tour manager found me on the balcony of my hotel with the bottles of rum and all these empty straws and said, `We have a show, Matt.’ He put me in the shower and then put my clothes on, got me up and pushed me onstage.”

Gilby:Â “We were playing in Venezuela and at that time Venezuela was going through a lot of political changes. Well, it just happened that the daughter of either the president or the general was a GNR fan. Strangely enough, after the concert, there was a military coup in Venezuela. But they were actually waiting until the band left the airport! The country went into chaos, but they waited for the band to leaveâ€”they didnâ€™t want us to get caught in the crossfire!”

Slash:Â “We found ourselves in the middle of sudden political unrest when we did a show in Caracas, Venezuela. Corrupt law enforcement, abundant drugs, and the world’s most dedicated and zealous crowds are the status quo across that continent, so I can’t say I was surprised. We were scheduled to play the biggest concert in the history of the county, and since there wasn’t a venue large enough to hold the forty-five thousand ticket holders, the promoter created one in a huge parking lot. It was an amazing show, and all went off well.”

Duff:Â “We played in Colombia once, and we were more powerful than the government at that point. There was guys with submachine guns inside the stage. If Axl were singing, or one of us would have said, “Revolution, now!” You know, these kids would’ve done it.”

Axl:Â “As we proved (…) in Bogota recentlyâ€¦ none of us are afraid to get wet!”

Slash:Â “The show that night – November 29, 1992 – was pretty magical. […] When we took stage sometime around 11:00pm, the place went crazy. We were playing really well, and the rain had held off throughout the first hour of our set until we played “November Rain”. As we started that song, literally on clue, the sky opened and it poured once again.”

Axl:Â “The situation was very tragic. Other parts of the, you know, experience as far as the show and the people, you know, was very big and very exciting. Then I was in a lot of trouble with the media and, and the authorities. So, I did not personally, you know, with the problems and being in trouble and then the tragedy at the show, it wasn’t as much fun for me.”

Matt:Â “When I was in GN’Fn’RÂ we played River Plate stadium two or three times [4 actually – The Blues]. I can’t remember exactly. But afterwards we went to a club near the water. Drank and danced all night. I remember the girls being very veautiful and had the most amazing time. We stayed at the big hotel in the middle of town. I think it was The Hyatt. There were thousands of kids outside singing to us and others shouting because they didn’t like us or Axl. It was crazy!!! We couldn’t leave the hotel without getting chased or mobbed. I snuck out with some locals and partied.”